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Secretary Stimson declared President Hoover had made 35 campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
...18th Amendment. A minority are Drys by conviction, a majority by political expediency. Their ranks range from the Constitutional Dryness of Idaho's Senator Borah through the drinking Dryness of South Carolina's Senator Blease to the cynically fickle Dryness of New Hampshire's Senator Moses. Utah's Senator Smoot represents the religious Dry, Ohio's Senator Fess the Wet turned Dry who is ready to turn Wet again if necessary to hold his job. Washington's Senator Jones typifies the Dry who suddenly finds it politically wise to favor submitting to the States the repeal of the 18th Amendment...
...president, like a schoolboy, is required to do certain tasks in a certain length of time. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act set forth that within 90 days of its passage President Hoover must appoint a new Tariff Commission of three Democrats, three Republicans (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.). Moreover the President, bold in defense of the unpopular bill, promised 1) to appoint more expert and impartial economists than had composed the old Commission, 2) to issue educational bulletins from time to time explaining the tariff and its beneficent "flexibility...
...tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
...this loss up to some $300,000,000. Already U. S. exports to Canada are down $155,000,000 for the first seven months of 1930, a thumping loss due partially of course to "depression." Canadian exports to the U. S., battling to scale the U. S. Hawley-Smoot tariff wall (which provoked Canadian retaliation in the first place) are down $42,000,000. Canada and the U. S., each the other's best customer, are today at grips in deadly tariff war. Producer's Promises. Expounding his bill last week, Prime Minister Bennett said that the Canadian...